In the prytaneum of Athens, entertainments were given both to foreign ambassadors and to citizens who had merited the distinction of dining in the prytaneum, a privilege that was given sometimes for life, and sometimes for a limited period.
A prytaneumin a Greek city was a building belonging to the community, on the altar of which was kept the ever-burning fire.
As to the situation of the Prytaneum see my note on Pausanias, i.
For the assemblies in Crete called Andria, those in Sparta called Phiditia, were secret consultations and aristocratical assemblies; such, I suppose, as the Prytaneum and Thesmothesium here at Athens.
The sites of the Canopus, the Poecile, the Academy, Tempe, and the Inferi may be said to be ascertained with tolerable certainty, but those of the Lyceum and Prytaneum have not been discovered.
Thucydides states that each κώμη or village of Attica had its hearth or Prytaneum of its own, but looked up to the Hestia and Prytaneum in the city of Athens as the great centre of their larger polity.
By common consent he dissolved the towns'-corporations and councils in each separate town, and built in Athens one common prytaneum or council-hall, existent still in the time of Plutarch.
But no woman is allowed to go into the prytaneum excepting the woman alone who plays the flute.
And those who eat in the prytaneum are not permitted to take anything away to be eaten; but they only eat what is set before them, and give what is left to their slaves.
You, a man educated in the Prytaneum of Athens, in the service of a city of barbarians and merchants!
I began in Sicily and Carthage, in the camps of the mercenaries, and I finished my education in the Prytaneum of Athens.
The honor of dining at the table of the Prytaneum was maintained throughout as a valuable reward at the disposal of the government.
And I denounce him, who runs into the Prytaneum with empty belly and comes out with it full.
Not one of these Generals of old time would have asked Cleaenetus[78] to be fed at the cost of the state; but our present men refuse to fight, unless they get the honours of the Prytaneum and precedence in their seats.
I invite you to take the place at the Prytaneum which this rogue once occupied.
Here I stand chilled to the bone, whilst the doors of the Prytaneum fly wide open to lodge such rascals.
Dissolving therefore the associations, the councils, and the courts in each particular town, he built one common prytaneum and court hall, where it stands to this day.
They also received the ambassadors of Genthius at the common altar-hearth or Prytaneum of the city with every mark of friendship.
The case was tried before the fourth Assembly of the people; and the fame of the accused, together with the well-known friendship of Pericles, attracted an immense crowd; insomuch that the Prytaneum was crowded to overflowing.
When the Fourth Assembly again met, strong efforts were made to fill the Prytaneum at a very early hour with the friends of Pericles.
Aspasia immediately sent to the Prytaneum an ivory statue of Mnemosyne, smiling as she looked back on a group of Hours; a magnificent token that she would never forget the clemency of the Athenian people.
The prytaneum and the state were convertible terms.
No Greek or Roman army crossed the frontier without carrying an altar where the fire taken from the prytaneum burned night and day.
Thus the prytaneum grew into a religious institution.
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